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Leadership: Can I learn it, how do I do it, and how can I use it to advance my career? How is today's world different from the one our teachers entered years ago, and how does that affect me? The two videos on this DVD address these and other questions typically asked by students trying to make challenging and life-altering career decisions. The videos may be used in whole or in part with background from: Mills, D. Quinn. Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live. Waltham, Mass.: MindEdge Press, 2005; Thomas, D. A., and John J. Gabarro. Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1999; Mills, D. Quinn. Principles of Management. Waltham, Mass.: MindEdge Press, 2005; Mills, D. Quinn, Sasha Mattu, and Kirstin Hornby. Having It All ... And Making It Work: Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 2004. The videos may also be supplemented by an excellent by an excellent on-line course that is available at the Winchester Center for Management Development, accessed via www.execlearn.com.

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To provide a framework for learning from past leadership experiences; introduce several key topics of today's career search environment in a broad framework of analysis; identify the most important leadership skills in today's environment and to provide concrete and practical steps that anyone can take to make themselves a more effective leader, even if one is not currently a supervisor or manager; identify common mistakes made by inexperienced leaders; identify ways that corporations can develop their employees' leadership skills; and compare and contrast consulting, corporate staff positions, and corporate line positions as possible career paths.

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Describes how Siemens Medical Solutions (MED) accomplished a remarkable turnaround from a money-losing operation to one of Siemens' most profitable divisions. By late 1996, a challenging market environment in the health care industry as well as inefficiencies in the company's manufacturing, logistics, and sales/service processes had a negative impact on MED's profitability. Reacting to these challenges, CEO Reinhardt defined and implemented a comprehensive turnaround program centered around people, processes, and products. The case highlights the most important aspects of the company's turnaround and later expansion and provides an outlook for the company's future challenges and opportunities.

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To discuss how to accomplish a comprehensive turnaround of a large-scale global company.

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A Harvard professor points the finger at venture capitalists, investment banks--and the Federal Reserve. He also explains what managers of the next wave of Internet companies must do to avoid the irrational exuberance of the dot-com bubble.

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Mills and Friesen examine what caused IBM to experience major financial losses and the need to reduce its staff by half. Virtually overnight, IBM went from being one of the most respected firms in the world to one widely condemned. This book describes how the company's violation of two well-established contracts led to its most serious problems. The first was its long-standing relationship with customers, where the implicit agreement was IBM's guarantee of high-quality technology and close-service support. The second was between IBM and its employees, with the implicit commitment to employee security. When IBM abrogated both contracts in the 1980s, its business began to fall apart. Quinn and Friesen describe IBM's experience in terms of broader historical and contextual patterns, and they look at the strategic tasks that IBM now confronts during its comeback.

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In the early 1990s, Acer, Inc. set two goals: to be a top-five PC company worldwide in 1995 and to be a global consortium of companies by the year 2000. The company identified potential obstacles concerning capital, image, number of experienced international managers, and marketing experience in foreign markets, and devised a strategy to reach its goals. This case examines the company's strategy in the context of changes in the PC industry.

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One important element of Acer's strategy is its client-server organizational structure. But is this structure different from other structures, or is it just an old concept with a new name? Additionally, how is Acer's approach to globalization different from that of Western and Japanese firms?

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In the midst of dramatic changes in the information systems industry and declining profits at the ABC Co., the vice president in charge of the sales and service division, Jeff, and his managers attempt to transform their division. The transformation gets off to a good start but soon runs into problems as the managers are forced to lay off employees and to cancel a conference intended to move the transformation forward. Jeff wonders what he should do next as some members of his management team resign and morale is low.

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Describes four basic organizational forms--hierarchy, division, matrix, and cluster. Diagrams of each are included. Their strengths and weaknesses under different business environment conditions are detailed. There is a table comparing the forms on several key organizational dimensions and a second table that describes key management practices in each form.

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